Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer is tackling the world's global energy crisis on three wheels at 35 miles per hour. Palmer is on track to become the first person ever to travel around the world in a car without a drop of gas proving free fuel for life.

They are walking catfish, a non-native fish, according to Paul Shafland, a senior scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission It's not uncommon when the rains come and drainage systems overflow, for the fish to pop up.

A giant crater made by an asteroid or comet explains why Mars is so lopsided, with a basin on one hemisphere and high terrain on the other, three separate teams of scientists said.The impact gouged out a hole 8,500km across and 10,600km long.

We're all familiar with BYO restaurants where diners bring their own alcohol. But there's an establishment on King Island where the customers bring their own food. This place still calls itself a restaurant.

THE Vatican has banned the makers of a prequel to The Da Vinci Code from filming in its grounds or any church in Rome, describing the work as "an offence against God". "Brown had turned the gospels upside down to poison the faith".

"It was 21st-century molecular epidemiology and old-fashioned boot leather," says John Redd, the infectious disease branch chief with the Indian Health Service in Albuquerque. "You've got to get out from behind your desk and hit the road sometimes."

If you were asked to guess when the word e-mail was coined, chances are you'd say perhaps a couple of decades back. Would it surprise you to learn that the first use of the word is recorded from around the time of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)?